Now that Ted Cruz is surging in Iowa, Donald Trump is unleashing his fury on Cruz. Three recent polls show Cruz clinching the top spot in Iowa — Bloomberg/Des Moines Register, Fox News, and Monmouth University — with Cruz gaining 21 points in the Bloomberg poll since October to garner 31 percent overall (a 10-point edge over Trump).
Trump, unsurprisingly, has gone on the attack. And guess what he's calling Cruz: "a maniac!"
"I don't think he's got the right temperament. I don't think he's got the right judgment," Trump said in an interview that aired on Fox News on Sunday. "You look at the way that he's dealt with the Senate, where he goes in there, frankly like a little bit of a maniac. You're never going to get things done that way."
Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, said his rival Cruz would "never get anything done" because he can't get along with people.
"You can't walk into the Senate and scream and call people liars and not be able to cajole and get along with people," Trump said.
Wow. It just feels wrong to admit The Donald may have made a decent point. Of course, it's very much a "takes one to know one" situation, as Trump personifies maniacal politicking. But yes, Cruz has fought to torpedo Congress into a government shutdown two different times, to absolutely no good end. Perhaps Cruz/Trump is the perfect GOP ticket.